Music
'Cause baby, you're a firework/
Come on, show 'em what you're worth/
Make 'em go, oh, oh, oh /
As you shoot across the sky
Metaphor
Katy Perry / Firework
Characters such as Donkey, Gingerbread man, and the Big Bad Wolf, inherently illustrate this form of figurative language.
Personification
Shrek Franchise
Tyreek Hill is as fast as a cheetah.
Hyperbole
Dolphins
2.) Thomas was humiliated and scared. He felt like he’d shrunk to the size of a small rat. (Dashner 17)
Imagery / Simile
Maze Runner
And when you smile/
The whole world stops and stares for awhile /
'Cause girl, you're amazing/
Just the way you are
Hyperbole
Bruno Mars / Amazing
Momma always used to say "life is like a box of chocolates."
Simile
Forrest Gump
2.) Lebron James is the Goat (Greatest Of All Time).
Idiom/metaphor
LA Lakers
“On the sand banks, the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones” (Steinbeck 2)
Alliteration / Simile
Of Mice and Men
I know you’ve been hurt/
by someone else
I can tell by the way/
you carry yourself
Idiom
Drake ft. Rihanna / Take Care
"The house of Godric Gryffindor has commanded the respect of the wizard world for nearly ten centuries. I will not have you, in the course of a single evening, besmirching that name by behaving like a babbling bumbling band of baboons."
Alliteration
Minerva McGonagall / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Jerry Jones just jeopardizes the Cowboys as their GM (General Manager).
Alliteration
“The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic – their irises are one yard high.“ (Fitzgerald 39)
Hyperbole
The Great Gatsby
2.) Boy you got my heartbeat runnin' away
Beating like a drum and it's coming your way
Can't you hear that boom, badoom, boom
Boom, badoom, boom bass?
Personification / Onomatopoeia
Nikki Minaj / Super Bass
He was so deadly in fact, that his enemies would go blind from overexposure to pure awesomeness.
Hyperbole
Kung Fu Panda
Shane Beiber sure can zing a fastball across home plate!
Onomatopoeia
Guardians
"Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun." (Harper Lee 48)
To Kill a Mockingbird
2.) His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy/
There's vomit on his sweater already, he's nervous, mom's spaghetti
Consonance / Assonance
Eminem / Lose Yourself
As Batman strikes his enemy, words such as "Bam!" "Pow!" and "Ouch!" flash on the screen.
Onomonopeia
2.) Shaquille O'Neal is built like a tank!
Imagery/Simile
Magic/Lakers/Suns/Heat/Cavs/Celtics
"Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done; for thou hast more of the wild goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five." (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene 4)
Idiom
Romeo & Juliet